Paddington | |
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 Entrance fromPaddington Basin | |
  Paddington Location of Paddington in Central London | |
| Location | Paddington |
| Local authority | City of Westminster |
| Managed by | London Underground |
| Number of platforms | 2[1] |
| Accessible | Yes[2] |
| Fare zone | 1 |
| OSI | Paddington   Paddington Bakerloo, Circle and District lines station [3] |
| London Underground annual entry and exit | |
| 2020 |  11.42 million[4] |
| 2021 |  20.44 million[5] |
| 2022 | 46.65 million[6] |
| 2023 | 48.55 million[7] |
| 2024 | 56.37 million[8] |
| Key dates | |
| 10 January 1863 | Opened (as terminus) |
| 13 June 1864 | Extension (to Hammersmith) |
| 1 August 1872 | Started ("Middle Circle") |
| 31 January 1905 | Ended ("Middle Circle") |
| 30 July 1990 | Started (Hammersmith & City) |
| 13 December 2009 | Started (Circle line to Hammersmith) |
| Other information | |
| External links | |
| Coordinates | 51°31′07″N0°10′43″W / 51.5186°N 0.1785°W /51.5186; -0.1785 |
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Paddington (/ˈpædɪŋtən/) is aLondon Underground station inPaddington. It is located adjacent to the north side ofPaddington mainline station and has entrances from within the mainline station and fromPaddington Basin. The station is on theCircle andHammersmith & City lines betweenRoyal Oak andEdgware Road stations and is inLondon Fare Zone 1.
The station is one of two separate Underground stations of the same name. Theother station, onPraed Street to the south of the mainline station, is served by theBakerloo, Circle andDistrict lines. Although shown on theLondon Underground map as a single station,[9] the two stations are not directly linked and interchange between them is via the concourse of the mainline station.
The station was opened asPaddington (Bishop's Road) by theMetropolitan Railway (MR, later theMetropolitan line) on 10 January 1863 as the western terminus of the world's first underground railway.[10][n 1] The station building was located on the road bridge carrying Bishop's Road (now Bishop's Bridge Road) over the mainline tracks of theGreat Western Railway (GWR).[n 2] Services were initially operated with rolling stock provided by the GWR,[13] and the MR route toFarringdon was laid withdual-gauge track for bothbroad-gauge andstandard-gauge trains.[14][n 3]
On 9 May 1864, the boiler exploded on the engine of a train about to leave the station eastbound.[n 4] The driver andfireman, a member of staff on the platform and a passenger on a train arriving from the east were injured. The explosion threw fragments of the boiler up to 404 feet (123 m) away. The canopy and end screen of the station's roof, the side wall of the platform stairs and the carriage of the arriving train were all damaged.[16]
On 13 June 1864, GWR services were extended westward when theHammersmith & City Railway (H&CR) opened toHammersmith.[10][17][n 5] MR services began operating to Hammersmith in 1865.[18] Initially, trains ran for about 1 mile (1.6 km) on the GWR's mainline tracks between Paddington and the start of the Hammersmith branch,[17] but delays on the mainline section led to a separate pair of parallel tracks for the Hammersmith service being constructed. These opened on 30 October 1871.[17]
On 1 October 1868, the MR opened a south-west facing junction (Praed Street junction) approximately 350 yards (320 m) west of Edgware Road for a new branch toGloucester Road.[10][1][n 6] MR trains to Gloucester Road served a separate station namedPaddington (Praed Street) south of the main-line station.[10] Paddington (Bishop's Road) station was given its current name on 10 September 1933.[10]
From 1 August 1872, the '"Middle Circle"' service also began operations through the station running fromMoorgate then over the Hammersmith branch toLatimer Road then, via a now demolished link, to theWest London Line toAddison Road and theDistrict Railway (DR, later theDistrict line) toMansion House.[19] The service was operated jointly by the GWR and the DR. The service ended on 31 January 1905.[20]
Until 1990, services through the station were shown on maps as part of the MR and, later the Metropolitan line. They were separately identified as the Hammersmith & City line in 1990.[10]
In December 2009, Circle line services began serving the station. Originally operating as a loop-line using tracks constructed by the MR and the DR and serving only the station in Praed Street, the Circle line's route was altered to include the Hammersmith branch to increase train frequency on the branch and improve the regularity of Circle line trains. Trains run in a spiral anti-clockwise from Edgware Road around the loop, back to Edgware Road and then on to the Hammersmith branch.[21][n 7]
The station was rebuilt during 2012 and 2013 to provide longer platforms, improved access and connections to the mainline station. A new entrance toPaddington Basin was opened.[23]
On 9 May 1864, the boiler of aGreat Northern Railway 0-6-0 locomotive exploded as it was leaving Bishops Road. Two people were seriously injured and the resulting debris landed up to 250 yards (230 m) away, and a section of the main station roof was dented.[24]
The station is inLondon Fare Zone 1 betweenRoyal Oak andEdgware Road stations. Train frequencies vary throughout the day, but, generally, Hammersmith & City line trains operate every 10 minutes from approximately 04:50 to 00:42 eastbound and 05:22 to 00:53 westbound; they are supplemented by Circle line trains every 10 minutes from approximately 04:58 to 23:43 eastbound and 06:40 to 00:45 westbound.[25] Both lines use the same tracks.[1]
| Preceding station | London Underground | Following station | ||
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| Royal Oak towardsHammersmith | Circle line | Edgware Road towardsEdgware Road via Aldgate | ||
| Hammersmith & City line | Edgware Road towardsBarking | |||
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| Royal Oak towardsHammersmith | Metropolitan line Hammersmith branch (1864–1990) | Edgware Road towardsBarking | ||
London Buses routes serve Bishop's Bridge Road, north of the station. Other bus routes serve the station in Praed Street.[26]
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